[U-Boot-Users] Fwd: RFC: U-Boot version numbering

[Andrew Dyer]

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From: Andrew Dyer <amdyer at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] RFC: U-Boot version numbering
To: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>


On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> If we go to date based versions.  I'd prefer we keep year as 4 digits:
>
> v1.2008.10
> v1.2009.01


I agree, although doing that makes the third field look like a month
to the uninitiated.  Perhaps use a letter like 'r' for revision
instead of a period for the second separator like so:

v1.2008r06


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